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Author: Terry Stibal
Date: 2005-12-27 01:24
On Thursday or Friday night on Late Night With David Letterman, they did a pop Christmas number, the title of which I am looking for.
It was sung by a R & B singer who is currently appearing in Hair Spray (who's name I also didn't get), and was an upbeat tune in the modern vein.
It was also mentioned that the tune was done each year (although I have missed it in the past). It was a bring down the house number, that's one thing for sure.
Can anyone here help me with the title?
leader of Houston's Sounds Of The South Dance Orchestra
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Author: GBK
Date: 2005-12-27 01:40
Darlene Love sang (as she does each holiday season) "Christmas (Baby, Please Come Home")
Probably the original Phil Spector arrangement adapted for the Late Show band ...GBK
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Author: Terry Stibal
Date: 2005-12-27 15:22
Thanks for the help, patron. Now all that I have to do is to get the lead sheet...
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Author: Terry Stibal
Date: 2005-12-28 14:52
...which is now on its way to me as well, courtesy of Hal Leonard. The Internet is truly a marvelous thing.
I liked the presentation on Letterman for the broad harmonies behind the vocalist, for the "cute" aspect of the tune, and for the honking baritone solo in the middle of same. True, I won't be playing it while flying in from the top of the stage on a wire (which is how Malone did it last week, dressed in a Santa Claus suit to boot), but it'll still be a good one for the season, a real belter of a song in a genre that is all too sugary and gooey for my liking. I may not have the strings that Shaffer was able to pull in, but it will all spread out well enough across the rest of the group.
One of the great things about looking for the lead sheets for specific tunes like this one is that you often have to buy a whole book of genre-related lead sheets (basically piano music with chords indicated along with the all-important words) in order to get the one particular one you are seeking.
While I used to view this as a bad thing (spending money on something you don't need), I've now come to the conclusion that it is instead a very good thing. After we get each such book (most holding up to twenty or thirty tunes), we have a "vocalist get together" and run through them all to see what we've got.
I have the pianist and the bass player play the bare bones version in the book, allowing each vocalist to take a shot at the song just to get a feel for how it may work if arranged for the whole group. We've found that some tunes that look just okay when on paper will "jump out" once the vocalist is comfortable with them, and have found more than a few "hidden treasures" this way in the past.
Once the selection process is completed, I take the "survey" results, send off a copy of the lead sheet and any other information that we may have accumulated on a particular tune. Three to four weeks later, we get the finished arrangements back (about thirty to forty bucks each) and -Voila! - new decent music results.
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